Brooks Camp,
Katmai National Park,
Alaska
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While some people differentiate among coastal brown bears, grizzly bears, and Kodiak bears, we are using the terms "grizzlies" and "brown bears" interchangeably.
Photograph by Roy Wood
Alaska's Katmai National Park is home to more than 2,000 grizzly bears—and every summer, around a hundred of these behemoths converge on Brooks Camp for a salmon feeding frenzy.
Vast and remote, Katmai covers almost five million acres (two million hectares) of Alaskan land and is accessible only by plane or boat. The park was established in 1918 to preserve the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an extremely deep ash flow created from the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
Every year in late June, Brooks Camp becomes the scene of a spectacular natural phenomenon as bears begin to congregate, drawn by their appetite for spawning salmon.
The National Park Service and the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska—partners in making WildCam Grizzlies possible—are committed to educating the public and fostering the conservation of Brooks Camp’s brown bears and their habitat.
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